Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3,620, Orson Floyd, N.C.

SERVICE
N.6
Floyd, Orson
NUMBER
R. 3620
Born in N.C.
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
3620.
REJECTED
P. O. _____
Orson Floyd
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Owen Floyd Solon Sus. Col. Wm. Dudley Dec 14 1836
3620
Act 7 Jan 1837

Orson Floya Solo

State of N. Carolina
Secretary of State's Office
7 th Dec. 1836.
Sir
I have carefully searched for, but do not find the name of Orson Floyd on any of the Musterrolls of the line of this State in the revolutionary war, or any other document in this office.
Very respectfully
Your O bt Servt.
W. Hill
James L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions

33660 Declaration of Orson Floyd.
C. W. Dudley Marsh & Ho Ho

Declaration of Orson Hloyd made in order to obtain a Pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
State of South Carolina } Common Pleas Marlinton District } State June 1836
On this the 15 th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, before me Richard Gant one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said State and the Presiding Judge of the said Court, personally appeared Orson Hloyd aged eighty one years who on oath made the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he was born in Hartford County N o 6 d on the 10 th day of June 1755 as his Parents informed him. - does not know that there was ever any record of his age. That he entered the service in 1779 as a drafted militia-man under Capt Martin Castwell for three months at Kingstown on New River N o Ca where he was stationed during the whole time. Shortly after the expiration of this term of his service, he was drafted again and served at the same place and in the same capacity three other months under the same officer. In the year 1780 he served again three other months in the same capacity and at the same place under Capt Daniel Watson and in the same year three other months in the same manner under Capt Samuel Castwell.

There were other Companies stationed there & the deponent knows not the object of it unless it was for the protection of the Governor who lived at Kingston. In the latter part of the year 1780 he enlisted under Capt Thomas Evans in the Continental service for the remainder of the war and was stationed at Kingston for two years and three months. He was not engaged in any battle but had some skirmishes with the Tories. He received discharges at the expiration of each term of his service but does not now know where they are. ~ supposes they are lost. As soon as the Act of 1832 came to his knowledge, he employed an attorney to prepare his declaration, but the papers were not sent on. He attended at the last term of this Court to prepare his papers but the Court adjourning on the second day he came too late to have them prepared. He hereby releases all claim to any Pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed { before me in open court } Nov r 15 1836.
Richard Gault Presiding Judge.
his Orson D Lloyd Mark

South Carolina Marion District
We Moses Smith a clergyman residing in the District and State aforesaid and William H. Grier a citizen residing in the same State and District do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Orson Hloyd who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration, that we believe him to be eighty two years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Moses Smith
Sworn to & Subscribed 15 Nov r 1831/2 Ed d Wheeler Clerk
W m H. Grier
And the said Court hereby declares its opinion after having investigated the matter and after having put the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the said Orson Hloyd is a Revolutionary soldier and served as he has stated. Also that it appeared to the said Court that Moses Smith who has signed the above Certificate is a clergyman residing in the District and State aforesaid and that the said Grier is a citizen residing in the same State and District, that they are credible persons and that their certificate is entitled to credit.
Nov r 15. 1831/2.
Richard Gantt Presiding Judge

South Carolina Marion District
§ § §
I, Edward B Wheeler Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for the District and State aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the o- riginal proceedings in the matter of the application of Anson Lloyd for a Pension.
Given under my hand and seal of office this the 15 th day Novr AD 1836 and in the 61 st year of American Independence.
Edward Wheeler C. C. P.